Roberta Silman
Perhaps in the future Michelle Hoover will let her very real talent take her into the unknown, where narrative and myth merge.
Read MoreIris Murdoch proves a wonderful companion: funny, honest, insightful, and courageous.
Read MoreI urge anyone interested in the voice and or just terrific music to try to attend one of Mirror Visions’ concerts.
Read MoreThis novel about Thomas Hardy becomes not only the story of an odd triangle, but also a meditation on the nature of art.
Read MoreWe root for all of the ordinary folk who survived — and are still surviving even now — one of the bleakest and saddest periods in Russia’s history.
Read MoreOne must be impressed by memoirist Matthew Spender, who refuses to descend into resentment or anything resembling self-pity despite a very strange childhood.
Read MoreDeath By Water plumbs the depths of the human condition in an entirely original way.
Read MoreAlthough there is a strangely dour tinge to this biography of Peggy Guggenheim, Francine Prose is ultimately fair.
Read MoreMakine may be plagiarizing himself, which is a perfectly legitimate thing for a writer to do, but scenes of spring snow and railroad stations become clichés even in talented hands.
Read MoreTony Judt is an American treasure, in time he may prove as great to our country as George Orwell and Albert Camus are to theirs.
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